Author: James DerbyPublisher: AAPG
ISBN: 0891813802
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1229
Book Description
Hardcover plus DVD
The Great American Carbonate Bank
Author: James DerbyPublisher: AAPG
ISBN: 0891813802
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1229
Book Description
Hardcover plus DVD
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
Author: Barry D. WebbyPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231501633
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Two of the greatest evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth occurred during Early Paleozoic time. The first was the Cambrian explosion of skeletonized marine animals about 540 million years ago. The second was the "Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event," which is the focus of this book. During the 46-million-year Ordovician Period (489–443 m.y.), a bewildering array of adaptive radiations of "Paleozoic- and Modern-type" biotas appeared in marine habitats, the first animals (arthropods) walked on land, and the first non-vascular bryophyte-like plants (based on their cryptospore record) colonized terrestrial areas with damp environments. This book represents a compilation by a large team of Ordovician specialists from around the world, who have enthusiastically cooperated to produce this first globally orientated, internationally sponsored IGCP (International Geological Correlation Program) project on Ordovician biotas. The major part is an assembly of genus- and species-level diversity data for the many Ordovician fossil groups. The book also presents an evaluation of how each group diversified through Ordovician time, with assessments of patterns of change and rates of origination and extinction. As such, it will become the standard work and data source for biotic studies on the Ordovician Period.
The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation
Author: Robert RidingPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780231106139
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Cambrian radiation was the explosive evolution of marine life that started 550,000,000 years ago. It ranks as one of the most important episodes in Earth history. This key event in the history of life on our planet changed the marine biosphere and its sedimentary environment forever, requiring a complex interplay of wide-ranging biologic and nonbiologic processes. The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation offers a comprehensive and surprising picture of the Earth at that ancient time. The book contains contributions from thirty-three authors hailing from ten countries and will be of interest to paleontologists, geologists, biologists, and other researchers interested in the global Earth-life system.
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco
Author: A.W. HunterPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 178620407X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
Special Publication 485 About 40 million years after the Cambrian Explosion, the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) represents a second and dramatic burst in marine biodiversity, with major changes in the structure of ecosystems and the progressive replacement of the distinctive Cambrian Evolutionary Fauna by the Paleozoic Evolutionary Fauna. However, the GOBE is not a single, worldwide, short-term event, but rather the complex sum of successive diversifications occurring in distinct taxonomic groups, trophic guilds and regions. This book focuses on the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota, Anti-Atlas Morocco, which provides a snapshot of the GOBE in high-latitude regions of the Southern Hemisphere. A series of contributions explore different aspects of the Tafilalt Biota, including its geological setting, the international fossil trade in this area and a series of detailed systematic contributions describing many new taxa of marine invertebrates. This volume represents a significant contribution to the understanding of the Tafilalt Biota and its significance to the GOBE.
Report of the State Geologist
Author: New York State Geological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Pannotia to Pangaea
Author: B. MurphyPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 1786204924
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Special Publication 503 celebrates the career of R. Damian Nance. It features 27 articles, with more than 110 authors based in 18 different countries. These articles include contributions on the processes responsible for the formation and breakup of supercontinents, the controversies concerning the status of Pannotia as a supercontinent, the generation and destruction of Paleozoic oceans, and the development of the Appalachian-Ouachitan-Caledonide-Variscan orogens. In addition to field work, the approaches to gain that understanding include examining the relationships between stratigraphy and structural geology, precise geochronology, geochemical and isotopic fingerprinting, geodynamic modelling, regional syntheses, palaeogeographic modelling, and good old-fashioned arm-waving! The wide range of topics mirrors the breadth and depth of Damian’s contributions, interests and expertise. Like Damian’s papers, the contributions range from the predominantly conceptual to detailed field work, but all are targeted at understanding important tectonic processes. Their scope not only varies in scale from global to regional to local, but also in the range of approaches required to gain that understanding.
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Ordovician Odyssey
Author: John Doyne CooperPublisher: Pacific Section Society of Economic Paleontologists & Mineralogists
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: The Geology of Spain
Author: Wes GibbonsPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862391109
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description